1932-08-18 — Page 11

THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1932.

THE CHINA MAIL.

“TEARDROP” CAR TO HAVE ITS VOGUE.

Will Supplant Current Models Soon.

AUTOS "BUILT BACKWARDS.

rear.

THE MOTORISTS' PAGES

NEW AUSTRALIAN

ROAD RECORD.

Brisbane To Sydney In 21 Hours...

Inter-state records are a big fea- ture with Australian motorists, and

NEW FUEL FOR CARS.

Success Of Road: Tests.

CREOSOTE OIL.

the

TWO CARS IN EACH CURE FOR HIGHWAY

MINUTE.

Production Aim Of Ford Plant.

Thanu-

&

ACCIDENTS.

Causes Investigated

By Experts.

4-CYLINDER MODELS

COSTLY

6-CYLINDER MODELS

“ECONOMIES.”

Tyre Prices Have Fallen For Since 1914.

OPEL MOTOR CARS

90" WHEELBASE MODELA

100 WHEELBASE MODELS

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR

CCOMPANY, LTD-33 WONG

Begun a little more than three news has just reached us which An invention which enables years ago, the Ford Motor Com- Wind Resistance Requires serves to demonstrate the keen com-creosote oil to be used in ordinary pany's works" at Dagenham are

More Power.

petitive spirit of Mr. Hilary petrol engines has been produced rapidly approaching completion. Buchanan who set up a new record and has proved successful during Already the assembly shops are

Writing of road accidents a "Looking ahead" a few years it from Brisbane to Sydney in De road tests..

fully equipped and engaged in pro- seems quite likely that fully stream-cember last.

Further developments of this deduction; while the power house and week ago, I ventured to suggest that before penalising all motor- Pre- lined cars will be popular.

smelting plant, which will deal with Riding an absolutely standard vice will almost certainly lead to a sent cars being poorly streamlined. 649 cc. aide value Triumph, he large proportion of commercial the raw material, are well advanced. ists for the faults of the few "ac-

At present the factory has acident-prone" drivers, farther in OPEL MOTOR CARS waste much of their engine power covered a journey of 672 miles in motor vehicles in Great Britain

vestigation, into the causes of ac- overcoming wind resistance. A 21 hours 4 min, thus beating, the using home produced tax-free fuel. productive capacity of 150 cars cidents was desirable. This is no fully streamlined car, by contrast, previous official record by no lese Not only will more economic road day. "When the works are complet-

jed in about nine months' time it Dew idea. Indeed, the Minister of requires roughly only half as much than 5 hours 27 mine. Mr. Hilary transport then be available; but, is stated that the output will be Transport, in instituting a special power to push it over the road: Buchanan is a salesman demonstra-in addition, help will be given to cheek, is an excellent example of a Hazell & Moore, Ltd., of Brisbane, reason I understand that this de-A considerable part of the work advice of the Royal Commission YOU ARE CORDIALLY IN-

A tear-drop rolling down the tor on the staff of Messrs. Westcott, the coal Industry, and for that 1,000 cars a day, or "two a minute. investigation into all fatal road accidenta is only carrying out the streamlined form, being broad- the Triumph motor cycle distribu-velopment will have the fullest will be devoted to the

on Transport given in their first shouldered and rather blunt at the tors for the State of Queensland. Government support, writes

facture of the new 8 h.p. Ford car.

VITED TO TELEPHONE lower or forward end thence taper- It is interesting to note that the motoring correspondent of the British labour. materials, and report in July, 1929, says A. G.1 ing gently to a sharp tail at the Triumph now holds the Brisbane Morning Post. From a national machinery have been used almost Throssell in the Daily Telegraph. 30228 OR TO CALL FOR

What this inquiry should reveal į

„A DEMONSTRATION. Hence engineers call a fully Sydney Record for both motor cycles point of view the importance of the exclusively in the construction and streamlined car a tear-drop. Practi-and light cars.

ed. The present prices of creosote when complete, will ultimately, em show how many private cars or invention can hardly be over-rat- equipment of the works, which, is the real causation of accidents. All that statisties do now is to cally all moving objects in nature approximate this form, including

oll is 5%d. a gallon. It is a by- ploy 15,000 workmen. product, of coal, and is not to be tablishment of

the factory the pedal cycles were "involved" in confused with the Diesel oils.

largest of its kind in Europe-will, accidents, the immediate inference for the unthinking public being From a streamlicing standpoint drive it 77 miles per hour. The invention is the work of it is claimed, prove of great benefit that these vehicles were to blame the modern automobile is built drive this car in still air at 78 miles Mr. A. J. Mantell, Chief Engineer to the country's export trade, as ap

in each and every case. proximately three-quarters. of hackwards, being slim in front per hour is an impossibility because of the Solex Company.

This is the time of year when The True Way of Prevention. manufacturers programmes are and bulky toward the rear. For at this speed the car requires: about Several corporations in the "Mid- Dagenham's output intended for

It is not even enough to dia beginning to appear, and the minimum resistance the car must 67 horsepower while the engine can lands and the North, including the Continental and overseas consump- be reversed, with the engine in the deliver at this speed only 64 horse- Manchester Corporation, have been tion. Even in their present uncover who or what was to blame: public have learned to look for re- the motor vehicle, its driver, or duced prices of popular models al rear inside a tapering tail and the power.

running buses experimentally on finished state the Dagenham works the pedestrian. If we understand most as a matter of course. They front rounded or sloped as indicat- "The sedan attains Its best speed creosote oil with the aid of the in-convey

an impression of very why and how we shall be much must not expect. them this year;

The cars efficient activity. ed by the two pictures shown here. of 80 miles per hour with a 3.5 gear vention, and their reports are

endless tracks nearer understanding how to pre- They will continue to get more for The horsepower required to drive ratio whereas the tear-drop reaches generally satisfactory.

seen passing on a conventional sedan and a tear 107 miles per hour with a 3.0 ratio. The engineer in charge of this through every stage of assembly, vent their repetition. If, for in- their money, but I do not think, drop car at various speeds is a But aside from the question of work at Manchester told me that the from the rough castings of their stance, inexperience or bad (but from what I hear, that existing minimum of 10. Above 36 miles speed, the tear-drop offers, many results had been very promising, components to the finished car with not careless) driving were found models or models like them will be Lecot, set out to cover one hundred per hour is the saving in power interesting possibilities, including and that he visualised a time within its engine running leaving the track to be responsible for many acci- offered at lower prices,

dents it would be wise to recon-} As to "economies," a word of at the rate of about 550 miles a day

falling raindrops, fish, birds and (Continued from previous Column)

most animals.

Reserve Power Largs.

To

Six Months' Experiment.

оп

money..

The es-

BRITISH EXPORTS- MAKE HEADWAY.

Australia Takes More Cars.

are

safer for all.

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A NEI CHUNG ROAD—HAPPY

VALLEY HONG KONG.

FRENCHMAN'S FINE AVERAGE.

590 Miles Daily For Three Months.

Paria, Aug. 1.

A year ago & Frenchman, M.

thousand kilometres (62,188 miles); which the tear-drop achieves. At smaller engines with reduced weight 18 months or two years when, if under its own power.

sider examining drivers before warning about "cheap" öll has al in a Rosengart caloon. 50 miles per hour, for example, the and cost, slower running, smoother, progress continued as at present, An Interesting feature of the

He accom- licensing them.

ready been given. Similarly about plished his task in 111 days, as tear-drop gets along with a little longer lived engines and increased a very large proportion of commer-company's organisation Is a Trade

Insurance companies refuse to more than 10 horsepower while the fuel economy.

These certified by public officials who are cial and passenger transport School, where boys of from 14% recognise, such a thing as "luck." "cheap" sparking plugs. sedan needs more than 20. At 70

vehicles would be running to 21 years of age receive practical Every accident has a cause, and are rather expensive to replace, sworn to tell the truth, the whole training for skilled work in the is therefore, ideally, preventable car's second or third year, and professional motorists are, sasential- as is generally necessary in a truth, and so forth But French miles per hour the tear-drop euts At any speed, the vertical dia creosote oll.

factory. The boys earn while And apart from those attributable there is a temptation to buy some ly sceptical, they shrugged their through the air with an expenditure tance between the horsepower re- of less than 24 horsepower while quired to drive the car and horse- The experimental 'bus had been they learn, starting at a wage of te human factors, a great many of the bargains that are offered, shoulders when Lecot, made his the sedan demands more than 50. power delivered to the rear wheels running for six months and there a week and 2s. 6d. for pocket accidents are undoubtedly prevent One man I know of fell for what claimi, and ten M. Rosengart was

H.P. Explained.

represents the reserve horsepower had been no serious troubles.

able. There is a good summary ware called Government aeroplane not completely convinced. The engine horsepower available available at any, instant for ac Mr. Mantell explained to me the

In the current issue of "The Motor plugs. They saved him a few at the rear wheels with four differ-coloration or hill-climbing. For ex-principle of the invention. It con-

Cycle of the material causes of shillings for a few weeks and then decided to start all over again, and With admirable persistency Lecot ent rear axle gear ratios is small ample, at 60 miles per hour asists in a special induction system

accidents, with the corresponding cost him $15 in engine repairs this time to place himself under the Obviously the maximum speed of simple measurement will show that and carburettor which are mounted

reforms needed to make the roads It does pay to get the plugs that control of the Technical Commission either car with any one of the four à sedan. geared 3 to 1 has 22 re- to an ordinary petrol engine.

best suit your engine, irrespective of the Automobile Club of France. gear ratios le attained when the serve horsepower while a tear-drop The carburettor incorporates a

Here are the more pressing of t power required to drive the car at with the same gear ratio has 38 bi-fuel feed, and the engine is

All wide, arterial roads should

He took a 6 hp. Rosengart saloon Among the British 1988 models (the French edition of the Austin that speed exactly equals the power horsepower. Likewise, the tear-started on petrol and remains on

be divided into two one-way roads.shortly to be announced is at least Seven) with which he had compet delivered to the rear wheels at that drop a 75 miles per hour and 8 to petrol while it is Idling. But

Main-road traffic should by law one popular make with free-wheeled in the Monte Carlo Rally, and speed. For example, the sedan 1 gear ratio is almost as lively as directly the throttle is opened the

It is interesting to note from hava precedence.

ing as a standard fitment. Four announced his intention of running with 'a 4.5 gear ratio requires the sedan at 50 miles per hour with whole petrol-system is cut out and Sgures just published that, during 'Bus and tram stops should be trifle more than 65 horsepower to 40 to 1 ratio.

the engine goes over to creosote ofl. the month of January last, Austra-clear of bends and crossings and as an optional extra and there day until he had totalled one hun years ago this was widely offered from Pails to Lyons and back every The acceleration and hill-climb- An improvement of between tenia imported 204 cars, of which no of each other, no tram lines in (Continued in Next Column.)

Was no demand for it. If it dred thousand kilometres. The ing ability at various "speed is Land sixteen per cent. in fuel fewer than 197 were British. while the middle of the road.

catches on now, as it has in day's run is from 575 to 590 miles, high. If a car accelerates at a economy is obtained, and, as has as regards South Africa, registra- "Keep to the left rule for America, it will be hard luck on according to the route followed. rate of 2 miles per hour per second been mentioned the creosote oil tions for the City of Johannesburg pedestrians, so that they face the the French and English pioneers for 10 seconds, its total acceleration costs 51⁄2d. a gallon.

show that during January British oncoming traffic.

The A.C of France had so little- who sponsored the device four faith in the performance that they is 20 miles per hour, If .before Troubles, such as smoking at full cars accounted for 88 per cent, of

Lorries and vans should carry a years ago and lost their money. acceleration the car was running 5 throttle and when accelerating and the total, and for 39 per cent white circle painted on back or

asked Lecot to pay the observers' miles per hour, its speed after sc- the dilution of the lubricating oil, during February.

fees in advance, while the engineers red reflectors on the rear number- General Motors celeration would be 5 plus 20 to 25 which afflicted the earlier compres These figures are significant be- plate. Cycles should have com HISTORY OF SPEED IN to Tooked forward to these spells fattached to the Technical Commis- miles per hour.

sion ignition engines, and still do cause hitherto the proportion of pulsorily a white strip at the rear Diference Not Great In Low. afflict some of them, have bean British cars has never exceeded 20 in addition to the red reflector..

per cent.; it is, moreover, a striking

The lamps marking a road ob The difference in acceleration be-lovercome with the creosote çil.

in part due struction should show red to Running costs of the petrol type fact that the increase tween the sedan and the tear-drop is not so great at low speeds be-engine using creosote oll will be to the Hillman Wizard, a car which traffic that must pass on the right about the same as for the compres has captured the fancy of the South and white to that which must pass cause wind resistance is not so) For Economical large of factor, but at modern drivsion ignition engine using import- African public to remarkable ex-on the left.

Maka tent, and of which considerable ed, Diesel oll. Motoring ing speeds of 50 to 60 miles per here is still a certain amount numbers are already on the road.

hour or more, there is a marked difference. At 60 miles per hour of development work to be done for example, the acceleration of the with this bi-fuel carburettor but tear-drop with 8 to 1 gear ratio is its simplicity and the fact that it nearly twice as great as for the can be used upon engines of stan- sedan with the same ratio. Like dard design are greatly in wise it is interesting to note that the acceleration; of this tear-drop

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STILL LAZIER MOTORING.

Tyres

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MOTOR WORLD.

Ford Once Held The Record.

fof twenty-four hours on duty with Hittle enthusiasm that they sought all possible meaza to avoid the task. When it appeared certain that Lesot wonld complete his performa rather more than one hundred days, how there were udfyri

sts than these Weight” French

June 20, the

Reviewing the machines and thus The tyres on, I Well-kept modern drivers of the past reveals car cost their owner about 28. 28. interesting points, C. Thi sach per thousand miles of road ago,." for example, the service. In 1914 The correspond-held by Serpollet at 75.06 The American motorist is ing cost was something like 20s, earlier this year Sir Malcolm ways looking for service anything or nearly ten miles as much: All Campbell drove "Blue Birdwat which will sav6:/ little personal the honour and glory for reduce an average speed of 253.97 m.p.k. effort is sure of an eager welcome. Ing the prices and Increasing the Henry Ford was one of the early The president of the Ford Motor Some genius conceived the Ides that life of tyres does not go to the record holders, reaching $1.37 Co. of Chand, Mr W. Camp- to take petrol and oil to the motorist tyre-makers for better roads have m.p.h. on a machine of his own bell, has been for some time-in- Is only a logical development of this helped very considerably to make manufacture In 1904 Between England. Under concession grant servicing craze, and has therefore tyres last longer.

1909 and 1922 very little progressed some 28 years ago the Canadian

FORD MARKETING PLANS.

designed a light tank wagon, fitted Our smooth, dust-free roads was made; in the former year Ford Co has the sole right to with two petrol pumps and an all have come, so to speak, out of our Hemery reached 128.8 mph. on

manufacture and sell Ford cars, |cabinet........ Several of these outfits. own pockets, provided for the Beng, and in the latter Guin

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